# Simplify package scripts
This PR's purpose is to raise a discussion surrounding our current
package scripts.
It includes some suggestions that aim to simplify the scripts and
hopefully bring a much more straightforward approach to developing and
contributing to Unleash.
Building (prod) should only happen **explicitly** and when needed.
## Before PR (current behavior)
- Clone the project;
- Open 2 terminals: One for `unleash` and another for
`unleash/frontend`;
- On `unleash`:
- Run `yarn` (which will also build, for some reason?);
- Run `yarn start:dev` to start backend in dev mode (`tsc-watch`);
- On `unleash/frontend`:
- Run `yarn` (which will also build, for some reason?);
- Run `yarn start` to start frontend in dev mode (`vite`);
So it seems to me like we build unnecessarily every time we install
dependencies. Neither dev scripts need to build the project, as backend
uses `tsc-watch` and frontend uses `vite`. I'm unsure why this is the
case, as building can take a very long time.
There's also some complexity in the way we need to split the terminal to
`cd` into `frontend` and treat it as a different project. The fact that
we have different script names is also confusing (`yarn start`, `yarn
start:dev`, etc).
## After PR
- Clone the project;
- Run `yarn` to install all dependencies;
- Run `yarn dev` to get started developing Unleash;
Running `yarn` should take care of everything needed to start
developing. This includes installing dependencies for frontend as well.
It should not build projects if we are not being explicit about it,
especially since we don't need to build them at this stage.
Running `yarn dev` should start the project in dev mode. This means
running both projects in `dev` mode, which for `backend` means running
`tsc-watch` and for `frontend` means running `vite`.
Here this PR attempts to provide a better DX by using
[concurrently](https://www.npmjs.com/package/concurrently) and
[wait-on](https://www.npmjs.com/package/wait-on) - This means both tasks
are ran simultaneously, stdout is labeled accordingly, and are stopped
together. It also means that `frontend` waits for `backend` to be
serving at `4242` before starting, since `frontend` starts pretty much
immediately with `vite` and `backend` takes a bit longer. Of course,
when the `backend` is hot-reloading you may still find some
`ECONNREFUSED`s on `frontend` stdout while it recompiles.
No more splitting your terminal and treating `frontend` as a separate
project.
## Discussion points
Maybe there's a better alternative to `tsc-watch`? I briefly explored
some alternatives and while they had a much faster starting speed,
hot-reload was sometimes slower. IMO we should aspire to run
`src/server-dev.ts` directly and only compile when needed.
Running `dev:backend` still serves a version of the frontend (at 4242).
**Why? Can we remove that behavior?**
I can't imagine a scenario in dev where we wouldn't want to run the
latest version of the frontend with `vite`.
~~**Note:** This PR removes all other out-of-scope scripts to focus on
this revamp. If we decide to merge it, we should evaluate what other
existing scripts we still want to include. May be a good opportunity to
clean up unused ones and only include the ones we really use. This
includes scripts that our GH actions rely on.~~
**Update:** In an effort to minimize impact surface of this PR and make
it a bit more ready for merging:
- It updates some docs in
2a4ff805e8
and
1bbc488251
to reflect our new simplified flow;
- It includes the old package scripts for now in
039bc04699;
- It updates some of our GH actions to reflect the new scripts in
7782cb9b12;
Given its current status I'll promote the PR to "ready for review".
I still think we should have a second look at our existing scripts and
GH actions to see what we really need and/or should adapt, but it should
be a team effort so we have a broader context. Maybe on a follow-up PR.
Does this require any changes to related projects (e.g. Enterprise)?
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Co-authored-by: Gastón Fournier <gaston@getunleash.io>
## About the changes
This is based on @nunogois suggestion to split the build in two, so we
don't build the frontend every time we run `yarn`
e2e frontend tests were forced to run by modifying frontend/README.md
### Important files
Some github actions had to be updated to also build the frontend. The
Dockerfile building our docker image was also looked into but it should
work as is
## Discussion points
This is a potentially risky operation as we might overlook something
that requires building the frontend which might lead to invalid builds.
We need to make sure when we do this we don't have any release planned.
## What
This PR removes or updates references in the docs to Heroku. Most of the code samples have been replaced with a more generic `unleash.example.com` url, while other references have been removed or updated.
Also removes old OpenAPI files that are out of date and redundant with the new generation.
## Background
Come November and Heroku will no longer offer free deployments of Unleash, so it's about time we remove that claim.
Links to the heroku instance are also outdated because we don't have that instance running anymore.
Finally, the OpenAPI files we do have there are old and static, so they don't match the current reality.
## Commits
* Meta: update ignore file to ignore autogenerated docs
I must've missed the ignore file when looking for patterns.
* docs: delete old openapi file.
This seems to have been a holdover from 2020 and is probably
hand-written. It has been superseded by the new autogenerated OpenAPI docs.
* docs: add notes for heroku changes to the frontend readme and pkg
* docs: remove old openapi article and add redirects to new openapi
* docs: fix link in overview doc: point to GitHub instead of heroku
* docs: update quickstart docs with new heroku details
* docs: remove reference to crashing heroku instance
* docs: remove references to herokuapp in code samples
* docs: add a placeholder comment
* docs: update references for heroku updates
* docs: keep using unleash4 for enterprise
* docs: remove start:heroku script in favor of start:sandbox
* docs: remove 'deploy on heroku button'
Now that it's not free anymore (or won't be very shortly), let's
remove it.
* docs: remove extra newline
* fix: use the frontend dir from the backend
* Build is now working
* Fix workflows
* Fix workflows
* Fix build PRs
* Test coverage workflow
* Test coverage
* Test coverage run
* Fix jest report
* refactor: add missing frontend build
* refactor: ignore frontend dir for coverage
* refactor: run frontend build in PRs
* refactor: run backend tests in PRs
* Revert "refactor: run backend tests in PRs"
This reverts commit 22cabddfd1.
* refactor: remove unused frontend build file
* refactor: test workflows in PR
* refactor: use a prepare script for the frontend
* refactor: simplify yarn build scripts
* refactor: fix check-release script
* Revert "refactor: test workflows in PR"
This reverts commit 496ae19404.
* refactor: remove unused gitignore lines
* refactor: remove renovate config from the frontend repo
* refactor: remove frontend repo license
* refactor: remove frontend repo changelog
* refactor: update frontend repo readme
* refactor: add frontend node_modules to dockerignore
* refactor: update the docker yarn.lock snapshot
Co-authored-by: olav <mail@olav.io>
* feat: add a script that generates an OpenAPI client
* feat: generate an OpenAPI client
* feat: use the generated OpenAPI client
* refactor: add an OpenAPI section to the readme
* refactor: fix missing interface prefixes
* refactor: regenerate OpenAPI client
* docs: Add some details on running and debugging the e2e tests
* docs: Designate code block in README as bash
* refactor: update e2e instructions
* refactor: remove e2e timeout warning
Co-authored-by: Simon Hornby <simon@getunleash.ai>
Co-authored-by: olav <mail@olav.io>
* fix: copy feature toggle instead of setting newVariants on the reference
* fix: remove console log
* fix: update messages
* fix: give feedback on strategy actions
* fix: do not allow feature toggle to be created with empty name
* fix: disable delete if only one strategy is applied
* fix: archive view
* fix: set name field on add variant required
* fix: set required on feature toggle name
